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Author Setterberg, Fred.

Title Toxic nation : the fight to save our communities from chemical contamination / Fred Setterberg, Lonny Shavelson ; photographs by Lonny Shavelson
Published New York : J. Wiley, [1993]
©1993

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Description xiii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Into the Heart of Toxic America. -- ̀̀The Whole Neighborhood Was Stunned''. -- Poisonous Doubts. -- The Mothers' Crusade. -- ̀̀Who Do You Wave Your Sword At?''. -- A Chemistry Lesson for Yellow Creek, Kentucky. -- Sally Teets and the Small-Town Toxic Rebels. -- ̀̀It's Like a Murder Mystery: We've Eliminated the Butler--But Who Did It?''. -- The Struggle for Certainty: Science Runs Up Against Its Limits in Toxic Towns. -- Love's Uncertain Chemistry: The Tragedy and Romance of Environmental Illness in the West Texas Desert. -- ̀̀Around Here, You're Either on One Side or the Other!''. -- Who Do You Trust?: The Riddles of Environmental Racism in Emelle, Alabama. -- ̀̀Tonight Feels Something Like the Fall of Saigon''. -- The Virtues of Messy Democracy and Uncertain Science. -- Notes. -- National Organizations. -- Selected Bibliography. -- Index
Analysis Environmental health North America
Pollution Social aspects North America
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-296) and index
Subject Environmental health -- North America.
Pollution -- Social aspects -- North America.
Environmental Pollution -- adverse effects.
Environmental Health.
Social Conditions.
SUBJECT North America. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009656
Author Shavelson, Lonny.
LC no. 93008010
ISBN 0471575453 (acid-free paper)